Category: Atlanticville News

  • What to do on a day off from school, Part I

    ERIC SUCAR staff The warm and sunny weather Sept. 13 offered youngsters myriad ways to spend a day off from school. Some headed to the beach in Long Branch for what were surely the season’s last days of frolicking in the surf.

  • 60 years later, Tuskegee airman gets his due

    Congressional Gold Medal awarded to Elmer Godwin BY LINDA DeNICOLA Correspondent The Tuskegee Airmen have waited a long time to get the recognition they deserve for their courage during World War II. In fact, they have waited over 60 years. Fort Monmouth Garrison Commander Col. Stephen Christian presents the Congressional Gold Medal to Elmer Godwin…

  • Oceanport candidates vie for mayor, council seats

    OCEANPORT – – Democratic Mayor Lucille Chaump will be challenged by former Oceanport Councilman Michael J. Mahon, a Republican, in the borough’s mayoral race this November. Four candidates are also vying for two open seats on the Borough Council in the Nov. 6 municipal election. Chaump, of Tecumseh Avenue, was elected to council in 2004.…

  • In the Service

    Gloriemar Torré Santiago has entered Basic Cadet Training at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo., in preparation to enter the first academic year at the academy. The sixweek, two-phased orientation program must be successfully completed by the cadets prior to entering freshman year. Santiago is the daughter of Ana and Axel Torré of…

  • September 2007: The thrill of the hunt

    Possessed by the color of leaves, from the ground up into the sky, I am always on the lookout for unusual cultivars and new happenings in the plant world. Autumn color is a benefit to seek out when selecting a new addition to your garden, and you should definitely consider it. The dazzle of ginko…

  • L.B. residents: We’re hostages of redevelopment

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH – Several Long Branch residents living in redevelopment zones along the city’s oceanfront told the City Council last week they feel like “hostages” under the city’s plan to take their homes by eminent domain. At the Sept. 11 municipal meeting, a resident from the Beachfront South redevelopment zone…

  • Broadway property owners await appeal date

    Building owners seek right to be redevelopers BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH – Three property owners in the Broadway redevelopment zone are waiting for a court date in their appeal of a state Superior Court ruling that gives the city the go-ahead to condemn their buildings. The property owners are seeking full discovery…

  • Lawmakers face roadblocks on the hard road to success

    Some say system in Trenton must be changed BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The idea that there is too much politics in Trenton has been around for so long, it has become a cliché. The familiar bugaboos of partisanship and petty rivalries disrupting the legislative process are well known and well despised. The jockeying for…